15 Most Toxic Places to Live

[FSogol]

Scary photo-article

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/photos/the-15-most-toxic-places-to-live/26145

[lisa58]

1. I don't feel so good after seeing that...

[FSogol]

4. Same here. I didn't send it to my wife because it would upset her too much.

Those rivers look like the ones Dante described.

[Barack_America]

2. Please consider posting this in General Discussion too.

It's that shocking and eye-opening.

Rec.

[GliderGuider]

3. Talk about fouling our own nest.

:cry:

[izquierdista]

5. Localized vs spread out

Pollution localized to one area can be remediated with a modicum of effort. What is truly frightening is the fact that Haiti and the North Pacific make the list. Environmental destruction on a wide area is much harder to fight. It will take years, even decades of continual planting to return Haiti to what it was. The North Pacific Gyre is even worse -- the trash is spread out over such a large area that there really is no way to pick it all up, it just has to decompose.

[FSogol]

6. Yeah and how long does it take plastic to decompose? n/t

[GliderGuider]

8. And as it breaks down into smaller and smaller fragments

it enters the food chain...

[dajoki]

7. There are no words to describe... n/t

[mimitabby]

9. we are certainly foul creatures.

[Triana]

10. DEFINITELY post this in GD! K & R n/t

[Nederland]

11. Earth's orbit?

Sounds like somone has no sense of just how big space is...

[GliderGuider]

13. I wondered about that too. It doesn't seem like the toxicity would be very high either... /nt

[FirstLight]

12. I actually posted this on my FB and sent a link to my kids' teachers!

Just because we can't see the pollution and havoc humankind is wreaking on the planet, doesn't mean it isn't horrible and scary...and LETHAL to all kinds of organisms, every day.

I know it is a drop of purified water in the filthy bucket,
but maybe each of us can try to fnd a way to do something different in our lives as a result of this eye opener.
And yes, I think we are screwn anyway, but it doesn't mean I won't go out trying!

still...yikes :scared:

[Faux pas]

14. For 40 yrs I've been saying we won't need a third world war to

kill ourselves off. I figured we'd die a slow death by killing off the planet. Humans are stoopid.

[earth mom]

15. OMFG! Poor Mother Earth!

:cry:

[imdjh]

17. I think that image is artistic license

[Lifelong Protester]

16. Wow! pushed on to the end of the photos, but it was not easy

Helps me redouble my efforts to buy use waste less...